Chapter Summaries

Tokoyo Misao kept the Tenth Division training hard because he was frustrated that Unohana and Rukia were keeping him at a distance. He explained his concerns about the squad’s losses and admitted he had paid to get Orihime into college, then dismissed Rangiku’s request for a reward.

• Tokoyo Misao made the Tenth Division shout and begin its daily training while Rangiku asked why he had been pushing the squad so hard.
• Tokoyo Misao privately brooded over being unable to visit Unohana for duels or get close to Rukia, and he had assigned Rangiku the division’s paperwork.
• Tokoyo Misao said the squad needed more training after members had died in the previous battle’s crossfire, and Rangiku noted the division’s generous benefits kept its members from transferring.
• Rangiku asked whether Orihime had gotten into college, and Tokoyo Misao revealed he had donated ten million to secure her admission despite her average grades.
• Rangiku asked Tokoyo Misao for a reward for her hard work, but he accused her of doing only what was expected and letting others handle much of the paperwork.

After Orihime Inoue reported that a voice from the Gates of Hell had declared the Child of Hell was born and the gates would open wide, the captains connected the warning to Tokoyo Misao and Unohana’s unborn child. Misao rushed to the Fourth Division as the child was born, and Soul Reapers gathered around the delivery room to prepare for the Gates of Hell to open.

• Orihime Inoue told Tokoyo Misao that a criminal had quickly become a Hollow and that a voice from the Gates of Hell had warned that the Child of Hell was born and the gates would open wide.
• At a captains’ meeting, Tokoyo Misao, Kisuke Urahara, and Shunsui Kyōraku speculated that the voice belonged to Captain Ukitake and that the warning referred to Misao and Unohana’s child.
• Tokoyo Misao left for the Fourth Division after two powerful waves of Reiatsu surged across Soul Society, while Shunsui Kyōraku ordered the captains to gather there.
• Misao reached the delivery room and heard Rukia say the child was healthy and Unohana say he seemed to want to fight.
• Misao waited on the roof as figures arrived around the Fourth Division and took positions in different directions.

The Gates of Hell appeared, and Tokoyo Misao tried to force one shut while the captains watched. A second gate opened beside Rukia and seized her and her child; Misao freed himself from the chains and plunged toward the gate.

• Tokoyo Misao struck the skyward Gates of Hell with Sōkotsu and used a lightning-and-fire technique to hold them nearly closed.
• A second Gates of Hell appeared beside Rukia, and its chains bound her and her child despite the captains’ attacks.
• Kenpachi Zaraki transformed into his Bankai form and pulled several meters of chain from the gate, but could not stop it dragging Rukia closer.
• The skyward gate’s skeletons seized Tokoyo Misao and bound him in Chains of Fate.
• Tokoyo Misao bit off part of a chain, analyzed it with Causal Principle, and freed himself.
• Tokoyo Misao descended like a comet toward the Gates of Hell below.

The captains discovered the Land of Reincarnation was erupting and might send souls to Hell, prompting Shunsui Kyōraku to enlist Sōsuke Aizen’s help. In Hell, Shizuka Tokoyo’s crying unsettled the skeleton soldiers, and Yamamoto picked her up to soothe her.

• Kenpachi Zaraki asked how to reach Hell so he could fight there, while Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Kisuke Urahara went to investigate the Land of Reincarnation.
• Mayuri sent Nemu Kurotsuchi into the Light of Reincarnation, which dragged her into the black hole and triggered a vast eruption of light.
• Urahara warned Shunsui that the eruption could send Soul Society’s souls to Hell, and Shunsui went to Muken to ask Aizen for help.
• Aizen agreed to go to Hell after Shunsui told him Tokoyo Misao had dismissed fears that Aizen would slaughter indiscriminately.
• In Hell, Shizuka Tokoyo’s crying scattered the skeleton soldiers while Rukia Tokoyo remained unconscious.
• Ukitake explained that Rukia had been weakened by Hell’s blood aura, and Yamamoto lifted Shizuka and gently rocked her.

Shizuka Tokoyo’s cries overwhelmed the Soul Reapers and drew Hell’s skeletons closer, while the group debated whether to feed him Gin Ichimaru’s Rinki. After Yamamoto urged them to act, Ukitake gave the child Gin’s severed little finger, and the crying stopped.

• Shizuka Tokoyo’s cries tormented Saito and the others, and he kept reaching for Gin Ichimaru’s Rinki arm.
• Gin Ichimaru snapped off his little finger and offered it as a way to quiet the child.
• Ukitake hesitated over the risk that Shizuka Tokoyo might become a Hell Togabito, but Yamamoto encouraged him to try.
• Ukitake placed Gin Ichimaru’s Rinki-coated finger before Shizuka Tokoyo, who swallowed it and immediately stopped crying.
• Saito and Katori Batsu'unsai relaxed as the group finally got a reprieve from the child’s cries.

Wang Tuchuan revealed that he had come to carry out Hell’s mission to bring about the descent of the Child of Hell, while several original Gotei 13 captains arrived with blood-red eyes and attacked. Shizuka Tokoyo’s cries halted the battle, and Togawa approached the helpless Gin Ichimaru.

• Wang Tuchuan drew his Zanpakuto and said he was carrying out Hell’s mission to bring about the descent of the Child of Hell.
• Blood-red tornadoes swept in, carrying away Hell’s skeleton soldiers and revealing several original Gotei 13 captains with blood-red eyes.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto placed Shizuka Tokoyo in Rukia’s arms and prepared to fight the attacking captains, while Batsu'unsai blocked Saito and challenged her.
• Shizuka Tokoyo woke and wailed, freezing the fighters and leaving Gin Ichimaru struggling toward the rinki he had cut up.
• Togawa endured the child’s cries and walked toward Gin Ichimaru, reaching him as Gin struggled to crawl away.

Tokoyo Misao rescued Rukia and Shizuka from Wang Tuchuan, fed the baby pure rinki, and fought off the first-generation captains. When he tried to leave Hell, he found the exit sealed, and stirring the blood sea in the sky affected the dead captains in unexpected ways.

• Tokoyo Misao appeared, snapped Wang Tuchuan's neck, and rescued Rukia and the crying Shizuka.
• Misao fed Shizuka a piece of pure rinki, which stopped her crying and freed the captains from her influence; Yamamoto helped tie the baby safely to Misao's chest.
• Misao cut down the attacking first-generation captains with a single spear stroke, while Gin Ichimaru and Ukitake recovered as Shizuka's emotions changed their condition.
• Misao failed to open a spatial rift to leave Hell, then used a staff to stir the blood sea overhead, making Yamamoto, Ukitake, Gin, and the other captains dizzy.
• Saitō Furofushi approached Misao with an uncharacteristically feminine expression, prompting Batsu'unsai to accuse her of not being Saito; Misao asked why Saitō and Katori remained conscious.

Tokoyo Misao and Aizen tried to find a way out of Hell while their allies fought its powerful defenders. After Kuruyashiki Kenpachi emerged under Hell’s control and killed Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, Tokoyo threatened to destroy Hell, and Kuruyashiki laughed at the idea.

• Gin Ichimaru fought on with his Zanpakuto held in his teeth, reached Aizen with Shinsō, and was decapitated by him before merging into Hell’s ground.
• Aizen failed to open a passage out of Hell, and he and Tokoyo Misao discussed having Ulquiorra and Grimmjow try to break through.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto fought Shijima and drove him into the ground, but Shijima re-formed as Kuruyashiki Kenpachi under Hell’s commands.
• Kuruyashiki Kenpachi apologized to Yamamoto, cut him in two, and asked Tokoyo Misao to leave Shizuka Tokoyo in Hell.
• Tokoyo Misao threatened to wipe out Hell, and Kuruyashiki Kenpachi laughed and said he could not do it.

Tokoyo Misao forced the sea of blood underground to reveal that the master of Hell was rising from the earth. The man introduced himself as Adnyeus and greeted Misao and Sōsuke Aizen.

• Tokoyo Misao drove the sea of blood deep underground with his Planet-Splitting Fist, clearing the view and finding that Jūshirō Ukitake was gone.
• Tokoyo Misao thanked Aizen, then picked up Rukia and her daughter as Aizen predicted that Hell’s master would appear.
• A massive black-gold pillar rose from the cracked ground with a figure standing atop it.
• The figure appeared before Tokoyo Misao and Aizen, introduced himself as Adnyeus, and said he had wanted to speak with Sōsuke Aizen.

Adnyeus revealed that Hell sought Shizuka Tokoyo because she inherited its fundamental power, then offered Tokoyo Misao a dangerous game to get Rukia and their child out of Hell. Misao accepted and placed them in a stone coffin, and Adnyeus explained that he and his allies had to guard it against Hell’s enemies under strict limits.

• Adnyeus explained that Hell was eroding the Three Worlds and wanted Shizuka Tokoyo, whose ability to understand and absorb what she ate matched Hell’s own power.
• Adnyeus said he had arranged a game that could send Rukia and Shizuka Tokoyo safely to Soul Society, though failure would leave them in Hell forever.
• Adnyeus transported Tokoyo Misao, Aizen, Ulquiorra, and Grimmjow to an arena where their Reiatsu was limited and each had only one life.
• Tokoyo Misao chose to risk the game, placed Rukia and Shizuka Tokoyo inside a stone coffin, and promised to bring them back alive.
• Adnyeus said the group had to defend the coffin from enemies created by Hell and revealed weapon and armor racks they could use.

Tokoyo Misao, Aizen, Grimmjow, and Ulquiorra selected armor and weapons for Adnyeus’s nine-wave survival game, then fought off the first wave of water elementals. After the victory, Tokoyo Misao commented on Grimmjow and Ulquiorra’s potential to evolve, prompting Grimmjow to ask what he meant.

• Aizen explained the armor’s effects, and the group chose equipment suited to their abilities, with Tokoyo Misao taking heavy armor and a trident, Aizen cloth armor and a staff, Grimmjow leather armor and claw spikes, and Ulquiorra light armor and a whip.
• Ulquiorra asked whether they had to follow Adnyeus’s rules, and Aizen and Tokoyo Misao confirmed that neither could escape or challenge the Soul King while their power was suppressed.
• Nearly a thousand water elementals formed in the arena, and Tokoyo Misao tested the trident’s splitting attack and its combination with Shakkahō before warning the others about the monsters’ powerful water assault.
• Aizen used binding and offensive Kidō to destroy most of the water elementals while Tokoyo Misao held the front line, and the group defeated the first wave in five minutes.
• Tokoyo Misao told Aizen that Grimmjow could still evolve further but that Ulquiorra’s chances seemed poor, and Grimmjow asked him to explain.

Tokoyo Misao advised Grimmjow and Ulquiorra on paths to evolution in Hell, then fought alongside them through the Vermilion Bird and White Tiger trials. The Azure Dragon trial began with enormous wooden dragons, and Aizen started chanting a fire incantation.

• Tokoyo Misao told Grimmjow that pursuing destruction could activate the Hōgyoku, and advised Ulquiorra that finding a heart or risking devouring offered paths to evolution.
• Ulquiorra stunned the Vermilion Bird’s flame falcons with his whip while Grimmjow and Tokoyo Misao destroyed them.
• Grimmjow charged the White Tiger pillar and fought its giant stone tigers, but one struck and injured him.
• Tokoyo Misao used Hollow power to pierce and kill many tigers, then used Hell power to split another tiger with the trident’s edge.
• Aizen tested separating his Hollow and Soul Reaper powers, but found that his equipment no longer replenished them while separated.
• The Azure Dragon pillar produced fifty giant dragons, and Aizen began chanting a fire incantation.

Tokoyo Misao and Aizen battled four colossal beasts while Grimmjow and Ulquiorra faced White Tiger and Vermilion Bird. Grimmjow and Ulquiorra each evolved by absorbing Hell Rinki, leaving their fights won and the group close to clearing the wave.

• Aizen used a modified Hadō #98 to burn through an earlier wave, while Tokoyo Misao and the Arrancar handled the following waves as Aizen rested.
• Four colossal beasts appeared, and Tokoyo Misao assigned Grimmjow to White Tiger, Ulquiorra to Vermilion Bird, Aizen to Azure Dragon, and himself to Black Tortoise.
• Tokoyo Misao killed Black Tortoise with a trident throw, while Aizen steadily wore down Azure Dragon.
• Grimmjow blinded White Tiger but was badly injured by its tail and roar; he then shattered the Hōgyoku, absorbed Hell Rinki, and evolved into Chaos Grimmjow.
• Ulquiorra was pierced by Vermilion Bird, devoured part of its talon, and evolved into Chaos Ulquiorra before killing it with a spear.
• Tokoyo Misao stopped Grimmjow from attacking Aizen until the game was over, and Aizen finished off Azure Dragon.

The eighth wave unleashed the ancient Menos Grande Ikomikidomoe, whose speed and power overwhelmed Grimmjow and Ulquiorra until Aizen and Tokoyo Misao helped defeat him. Grimmjow then attacked Aizen, but Aizen survived and evolved into a new chaos form, leaving the group facing the aftermath of his transformation.

• Tokoyo Misao watched the eighth wave form from Hollow power, and Grimmjow was injured by its pulsing heartbeat before charging the sphere.
• The sphere became Ikomikidomoe, who used Sonído to strike Grimmjow and battle Grimmjow and Ulquiorra; Tokoyo Misao identified him as an ancient Menos Grande once sealed into a Zanpakuto.
• Aizen used Hadō #90: Black Coffin to wound Ikomikidomoe and the two Hollows, allowing Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, and Tokoyo Misao to coordinate attacks that drove a lance into Ikomikidomoe's brain and defeated him.
• Grimmjow seized the chance to stab Aizen through the chest and crush his heart, but Aizen declared he would be reborn as red-black power transformed him into chaos Sōsuke Aizen.
• Aizen asked Tokoyo Misao whether his new form looked handsome, and Tokoyo Misao judged that it had an eerie beauty.

Tokoyo Misao and the others faced the ninth wave, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, whose body was powered by Hell and who wielded Ryūjin Jakka. After Yamamoto nearly reduced them to ashes with Bankai, Tokoyo Misao survived with his armor’s revival ability and defeated him, then demanded that the game send them back.

• Aizen turned away from Grimmjow, and Tokoyo Misao stopped Grimmjow from attacking him so they could finish the game’s final wave.
• The ninth wave formed from the shattered pillars as Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, empowered by Hell and wielding Ryūjin Jakka.
• Yamamoto cut Grimmjow nearly in half, and Ulquiorra rescued him while Aizen explained that Yamamoto had once required special measures to overcome.
• Tokoyo Misao, Aizen, Ulquiorra, and Grimmjow launched a combined attack against Yamamoto’s Bankai, but its black flames gravely wounded them all.
• Tokoyo Misao reached Yamamoto at the heart of the black sun, revived through his armor’s ability, seized Ryūjin Jakka, and cut Yamamoto apart after the pillars stopped feeding him power.
• Tokoyo Misao collapsed, recovered enough to stand, and demanded that the game send them back.

Tokoyo Misao woke in an unfamiliar life with Rukia and Retsu Unohana, unsure how he had arrived in this version of the Soul Reaper world. After breakfast, he followed Rukia to school while deciding to stay quiet and observe.

• Misao woke to Rukia calling him and found himself in an unfamiliar bedroom.
• Misao went downstairs and recognized the woman cooking breakfast as Retsu Unohana and the girl as Rukia Kuchiki.
• Retsu urged Misao to apologize to Rukia, then playfully smacked him as he left.
• Misao saw the Tokoyo nameplate and followed Rukia, who carried a wooden sword, toward school.

Tokoyo Misao began school in a strange version of the Bleach world, reunited with Rangiku Matsumoto and his classmates, and learned that he had been placed in Class F after missing the placement exam. He discovered that he could absorb knowledge from textbooks and, after overhearing Ikkaku and Yumichika discuss Shūhei Hisagi, asked whether something had happened to him.

• Rukia hurried Misao to Karakura Town Gotei First High School and warned Rangiku Matsumoto to stay away from her brother.
• Retsu Unohana stopped Rukia from striking Rangiku, then sent Rukia and Misao to class.
• Misao found Year 2, Class F, where Renji Abarai, Ikkaku Madarame, and Yumichika treated him as their boss.
• Shunsui Kyōraku told Misao that he had been assigned to Class F after missing the placement exam and could return to Class A by doing well next month.
• Misao discovered he could master textbook material by reading it and quickly absorbed all his books.
• Ikkaku urged Yumichika to tell Misao about Shūhei Hisagi, and Misao asked whether something had happened to him.

Tokoyo Misao found himself treated as a legendary senior at school, then met Sōsuke Aizen on the rooftop. Aizen proposed that they study, enter the upper ranks, and replace the city’s ineffective leaders, leaving Misao asking if Aizen wanted to become prime minister.

• Tokoyo Misao declined Ikkaku’s invitation to avenge Shūhei, saying he planned to study at the library.
• Renji, Ikkaku, and Yumichika escorted Misao toward the cafeteria, where Tōshirō Hitsugaya asked permission to join Ichigo Kurosaki’s squad and Ichigo declared his ambition to stand at the top of Gotei High School.
• Misao’s reputation led students to give up their places in the cafeteria line, and he recognized several of them by name before fleeing with his lunch.
• Misao found Sōsuke Aizen waiting on the rooftop, where Aizen proposed that they study hard, enter the upper ranks, and replace the city’s ineffective leaders.
• Misao ate his lunch while listening to Aizen’s plans, then asked whether Aizen wanted to become prime minister.

Tokoyo Misao discovered that he had unusual physical strength after catching and crushing a high-speed tennis ball, while Sōsuke Aizen hinted at his own ambitions. After following Rukia and the others, Misao found them facing off against seven girls beneath a bridge, with Renji’s group and several other girls injured nearby.

• Sōsuke Aizen told Misao that he intended to stand above the heavens, leaving Misao suspicious of his plans.
• Renji Abarai left with Yumichika and Ikkaku to find the punks who had beaten Shūhei, while Misao headed for the library.
• Retsu Unohana hit a tennis ball at Misao, and he caught and crushed it with his bare hand before realizing she might have been testing him.
• Lisa Yadōmaru flirted with Misao in the library, but Yoruichi Shihōin pulled her away and said she would visit Misao that weekend.
• Misao followed Rukia, Orihime, Isane, and Nanao to a bridge, where he saw Ikkaku and two others injured alongside Yoruichi, Nemu, and Rangiku as the four girls faced seven opponents.

Tokoyo Misao intervened in a fight between students from Gotei High School and Harribel’s group, then tried to resolve their dispute peacefully. He left after disabling Harribel, unaware that the conflict had been staged over him and that Harribel had planned to seduce and overpower him.

• Rukia defeated Bambietta, while Nemu and Nel fought fiercely nearby as Misao watched and recognized the combatants.
• When Harribel armed herself with a steel pipe, Misao bounded to the bridge and ordered everyone to stop fighting.
• Misao sent Rukia and the injured Gotei High School students away, then asked Harribel to explain the dispute between the schools.
• Harribel dismissed her companions and approached Misao, insisting that he could do whatever he wanted to her if he left them alone.
• Misao rejected Harribel’s apparent offer and used a pressure point to make her collapse, then suggested the students spend time together instead of fighting over territory.
• After Misao left, Harribel revealed that the fight had really been over him and regretted that her plan to overpower him had failed.